Suppose we compute the above CCT (Section 2.6.4)
at a few different
tile-sizes, and combine these CCTs into a single six-parameter representation.
The value of tile-size, NW, may be thought of as a sixth coordinate axis
in the chirplet transform parameter space - TF-area. Including this
sixth coordinate axis provides us with a hierarchical (multi-resolution) CCT.

To compute the proposed hierarchical CCT,
we repeat the computation of the CCT (14)
for each of the desired tile sizes and place them in a six-dimensional space,
equally spaced along the sixth coordinate axis.
Part of the computation involves re-synthesizing a new set
of multiple mother chirplets for each value of NW.

Various 2-D slices through the multiresolution CCT
may correspond to useful tilings of the TF plane with true
parallelograms (true to the extent that the DPSS define a truly rectangular
region in the TF plane). For example, the time-scale slice of the
multiresolution CCT, taken at a particular resolution,
is a wavelet transform based on multiple mother wavelets.

Again, we may use the result
of Shenoy and Parksshenoyweyl to generalize the
multiresolution CCT by smoothing the
TF distribution with a continuously variable parallelogram size.
When uncountably many of these parallelogram-smoothed TF planes
are ``stacked'', a continuous six-dimensional parameter
space results, having parameters time, frequency, scale, chirp,
dispersion, and resolution.

Others have done work to further generalize energy concentration
to arbitrarily-shaped regions of the TF planetopiwala, rather than just
parallelograms. It would therefore be possible to use these results
to define more general parameterizable transforms, based on families
of multiple analysis primitives acting collectively in the TF plane.